The Architect's Brain : Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture


Harry Francis. Mallgrave
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2010.
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1 online resource (283 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - The Architect's Brain; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Historical Essays; 1 The Humanist Brain: Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo; 2 The Enlightened Brain: Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy; 3 The Sensational Brain: Burke, Price, and Knight; 4 The Transcendental Brain: Kant and Schopenhauer; 5 The Animate Brain: Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper; 6 The Empathetic Brain: Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller; 7 The Gestalt Brain: The Dynamics of the Sensory Field; 8 The Neurological Brain: Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra; 9 The Phenomenal Brain: Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa. - Part II Neuroscience and Architecture10 Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain; 11 Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision; 12 Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment; 13 Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses; Epilogue: The Architect's Brain; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index. - The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theoryLooks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade
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